The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Rav67]

Celtic eye Gancarczyk and Guzan 

Defender Seweryn Gancarczyk (left) and keeper Brad Guzan 
Celtic have taken two players on trial at Lennoxtown with a view to completing deals before the transfer window closes on 31 January.
Polish international left-back Seweryn Gancarczyk is rated at £750,000 and has played most of his career in the Ukraine with Metalist Kharkiv.

Celtic have also invited American international goalkeeper Brad Guzan to their training headquarters next week.

Guzan, 23, is valued at about £1m and has played four times for the USA.




Story taken from BBC, does anyone know anything about these two boys??

Haven't heard much about either of them, but delighted to see us reinforcing in the full-back positions.  I don't reckon much to Naylor although apparently he's upped his performances a bit recently.  Guzan would be a strange signing given that Boruc has just signed a new deal and we have Brown on the bench (decent but not great keeper, what you'd expect really for your deputy).

Was at Parkhead last Saturday for the Killie match (absolutely pish game), Naylor was dreadful, general consensus amoung the terraces is that he's not up to standard.
It's good to see that he is looking at the defense though, can't wait to see if this young fella Mizuno is as good as being said.

I think he's crap too, I'd love to see % statistics for how many times in a game he actually finds someone in his own team with a pass or cross, it would be absolutely shocking. 

Only saw brief highlights on Setanta of the game, McDonald looked sharp.  Who else played well?  Think Strachan got a bit carried away with his praise of the team's performance by the looks of the wee bit I saw!

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Celtic eye Gancarczyk and Guzan 

Defender Seweryn Gancarczyk (left) and keeper Brad Guzan 
Celtic have taken two players on trial at Lennoxtown with a view to completing deals before the transfer window closes on 31 January.
Polish international left-back Seweryn Gancarczyk is rated at £750,000 and has played most of his career in the Ukraine with Metalist Kharkiv.

Celtic have also invited American international goalkeeper Brad Guzan to their training headquarters next week.

Guzan, 23, is valued at about £1m and has played four times for the USA.




Story taken from BBC, does anyone know anything about these two boys??

Haven't heard much about either of them, but delighted to see us reinforcing in the full-back positions.  I don't reckon much to Naylor although apparently he's upped his performances a bit recently.  Guzan would be a strange signing given that Boruc has just signed a new deal and we have Brown on the bench (decent but not great keeper, what you'd expect really for your deputy).

Was at Parkhead last Saturday for the Killie match (absolutely pish game), Naylor was dreadful, general consensus amoung the terraces is that he's not up to standard.
It's good to see that he is looking at the defense though, can't wait to see if this young fella Mizuno is as good as being said.

I think he's crap too, I'd love to see % statistics for how many times in a game he actually finds someone in his own team with a pass or cross, it would be absolutely shocking. 

Only saw brief highlights on Setanta of the game, McDonald looked sharp.  Who else played well?  Think Strachan got a bit carried away with his praise of the team's performance by the looks of the wee bit I saw!

Scott Brown was the only one who stood out for me, should have been Celtic's MotM

[seanf]

the whole team were absolutely shocking today!

[Orior]

Aye, with TG4 out of whack, I had the misfortune of watching this game on Setanta. Pish, drivel, crap and more drivel and more crap. Cant see them hoops winning anything.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Aye, with TG4 out of whack, I had the misfortune of watching this game on Setanta. Pish, drivel, crap and more drivel and more crap. Cant see them hoops winning anything.

The team have seriously gone off the boil at the minute, last couple of games have been sh*te.
The thing is though, points mean prizes, crap match, one goal but three points in the bag!

The team are hopefully getting all their bad matches out of the way now!  
With Barca coming up in less then a month and tough away games against Motherwell and Aberdeen and away in the Scottish cup and at home against Hearts before this game, the next 4 weeks could well decide the season for us!

On the plus side, Naka's back, McGeady's back, Skippy still scoring, Brown playing class, hopefully Hinkel getting a full 90 mins, the immenient arrival of Mizuno and poss arrival of Guzan then things could be alot worse.

Hail Hail

[Rav67]

The side could do with a bit of genuine pace in attack, going forward the team is just too ponderous at the minute.  Celtic will need to improve before the rearranged home rangers fixture, that will be the most important Old Firm in a few seasons and a must-win for the Hoops.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

The side could do with a bit of genuine pace in attack, going forward the team is just too ponderous at the minute.  Celtic will need to improve before the rearranged home rangers fixture, that will be the most important Old Firm in a few seasons and a must-win for the Hoops.

Quite Rav, but the league could be a distant memory by the time of the re-scheduled OF match!
Yesterdays performance was dire, but lets not forget that Falkirk put in a great performance, it's difficult to play against a team which is defending with 8-9 men for most of the match!
Thought Naylor had another poor game as well.

[red hander]

Apparently Kyle Lafferty has agreed to sign in deal worth over 3m with Riordan going the other way to Burnley

[slow corner back]

Apparently Kyle Lafferty has agreed to sign in deal worth over 3m with Riordan going the other way to Burnley

Is that a piss take?

[Rav67]

Apparently Kyle Lafferty has agreed to sign in deal worth over 3m with Riordan going the other way to Burnley

Is that a piss take?

Nothing about it on F365 but he was linked last year, and although he was/is a Rangers fan he said he'd be honoured to join such a great club.  Personally, I don't see how we need him when we already have Hesselink and Killen as tall targetmen strikers and he's not going to start ahead of Hesselink anyway.  Would be a real test for how much things have moved on at Windsor Park though if he did sign, it'd be interesting to see how the crowd would receive him at NI matches.

[lfdown2]

Check PM Gaoth Dobhair if ye get a chance

[red hander]

No pisstake.  He's keen to go, Celtic have apparently offered £2.7m plus Riordan (= £3.2m) but Burnley are holding out for another £800,000. 

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

No pisstake.  He's keen to go, Celtic have apparently offered £2.7m plus Riordan (= £3.2m) but Burnley are holding out for another £800,000. 

Heard this yesterday, nearly started crying!
WTF do we need another target man up front, have JVOH and Killen, and Killen like Lavatory has only scored a couple of goals this season.
The wee p***k was courted last season and stuck the single digit up to the Hoops when somebody else came in - fcuk him, we don't need a Burnley reject!! a striker who can't f**king score - brilliant!

[nifan]

Did lafferty stick the finger up at celtic - I thought he said it would be an honour, but burnley rebutted the offer celtic made for him.

[Evil Genius]

The wee p***k was courted last season and stuck the single digit up to the Hoops when somebody else came in - fcuk him, we don't need a Burnley reject!!

1. Lafferty said he'd readily consider playing for a "big club" like Celtic (I think Nifan is correct that he used the word "honour");
2. Far from being a Burnley reject, the only reason he hasn't already moved to Celtic, Wolves or Fulham (all of whom bid for him), was because the Clarets want to keep him, so won't budge from their valuation;
3. Burnley sold another forward (Andy Gray) last week, so if anything, they're even less likely to sell Lafferty (unless the money's right).

Apart from that, though, you make a good point...

Oh, and far from being "wee", he's 6' 4" and built to match.